Rav Michael Laitman PhD
Kabbalah Revealed
part - 9 -
Gematria of the soul
Gematria of the soul
If two Kabbalists read one and the same description of the upper world, they will perceive a certain picture. But how will they be able to compare their sensations?
Each feels them according to the inner properties of his soul. If one Kabbalist has a larger screen than the other and his spiritual level is higher, the pictures he can see will definitely be different. If you are in the 5 th grade and I am in the
10 th , you naturally understand more than I do.
The quality of the soul is a combination of all of its properties. Man in our world has an entire set of properties: greed, jealousy, mercy etc., but everyone has them in a different proportion. By studying Kabbalah one can discover the desires of the soul, describe and formulate its structure.
The Creator created a single desire - the soul called "Adam". 600.000 fixed structures, separate souls can be singled out in it.
Each soul (both common and individual) includes 620 inner parts, desires. Their combination determines the soul structure.
Each of these soul structures receives its name according to the principal, distinctive quality. It has a numerical value called Gematria . Gematria of combined properties is expressed by letters, i.e. the Hebrew letters are used instead of numbers. In order to define the souls numerically, they are given names, since originally there were no numbers in Hebrew
(they are designated instead by letters).
Then absolute attainment is achieved
As a result becoming corrected, all souls merge into one common soul and start interrelating within a unified system. This common soul construction binds all individual souls together, so that ultimately each of them feels what all the others feel. This is the achievement of absolute attainment.
Such a state is called the "Final Correction", after which the soul, receiving the light from above ascends to the Source - the Creator, becoming equal to Him.
All souls are obliged to achieve this state not later than 6000 thousand years from the point of "the creation of the world" - when the aspiration to the upper world awakened in man for the first time.
The year 2005 coincides with 5765 from "the creation of the world". We have a little more than two hundred years left, but our efforts may considerably shorten that period.
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